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| New Mexico Mission Music Schools in the 17th and 18th Centuries | ||
| Lozano reveals in this presentation a portion of United States history that to this day goes largely unrecognized. The legacy of what today is the USA, tells that the history of western music of this country began in the East coast at the end of the 17th Century. Lozano will demonstrate based in the Franciscan documents of that period, that by 1630 in Nuevo Mexico there was a large musical activity with full orchestras formed by the natives. They played musical instruments such as, chirimías and bajones, trumpets, and organs among others, and sang polyphonic chants. | ||
| Moros y Cristianos | ||
| Until the last years of the 20th Century, New Mexico celebrated a reenactment of the battle between the Moors and Christians that took place during centuries in Spain. In New Mexico the reenactment and battle were carried out on horseback like in some parts of Spain. This presentation traces the origins of this tradition to medieval Spain. Lozano will explain how it evolved and how it arrived to New Spain in the early sixteen century and traveled to the province of Nuevo Mexico were it was celebrated for the first time in 1598, as Villagrá cites in one of his poems | ||
| Romances | ||
| Romances are epic-lyrical sung poems or ballads of oral tradition and varied
length. They are generally octosyllabic with assonant rhyme on the paired verses.
People sing them in different social contexts, most often accompanied by an
instrument. During certain periods such ballads became the news bulletin, transmitted
orally by mouth of jongleurs that sang them, informing people of past and current
events. Thus history passed down from mouth to mouth, from one generation to
another through time, inevitably uniting itself to legends, novels, humor and
rumor, and to the invention of singers themselves. Today, we possess enormous collections of this primitive and simple oral poetry, of rural and medieval origin. The great Spanish poet, Juan Ramón Jiménez, called it the river of the Spanish language. We find such collections in the Iberian Peninsula as well as throughout Hispanic America, including the Southwest of the U.S.A, namely California, Texas, Southern Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, and were the forerunners of the corridos. Yet, where did ‘romances’ come from? How did they originate? What types of ‘romances’ exist? This presentation will address these questions and end with a few examples of traditional romances from Spain interpreted by Lozano. |
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